AOL: Dotcom Dummies
Corporate Gossip
Becca Platsky
5.0 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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What ever happened to AOL?! We go all the way back to 1999 (home video included) and meet Steve Case, the CEO of, at the time, the largest technology company in America. High on his own supply, he wrangles Time Warner CEO Jerry Levin into a business noogie and manages to destroy a third of a TRILLION DOLLARS in shareholder value almost instantly.
TW: murder
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| 0:00.0 | We are starting tonight in Washington where a high-profile dinner is going on right now at the White House, |
| 0:05.2 | and the guests of honor are the tech titans that control nearly all aspects of our digital lives. |
| 0:11.1 | Okay, what the hell? |
| 0:14.8 | Hi, this is Steve Case. I need to talk to somebody about the dinner going on over there. |
| 0:18.8 | I wasn't invited. |
| 0:20.7 | I'm Steve Case. |
| 0:21.6 | I'm the founder of AOL. |
| 0:23.6 | Don't Google it. |
| 0:24.6 | Just trust me, okay? I founded it. |
| 0:27.6 | AOL, America Online. |
| 0:29.6 | Is there anyone I can talk to that's over 21? |
| 0:32.6 | You're all 21? |
| 0:34.6 | Okay. |
| 0:35.6 | Okay, this is bullshit. |
| 0:38.3 | I should be there. |
| 0:40.3 | I basically invented the internet. |
| 0:43.3 | Bill Clinton loved me. |
| 0:45.3 | George Bush loved me. |
| 0:46.3 | I was the tech wonderkin. |
| 0:48.3 | I was the boy genius. |
| 0:49.3 | I was in a Gap commercial. |
| 0:51.3 | What, I made one bad deal 25 years ago that destroyed $99 billion in |
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